Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f5SDrkR26677 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:53:46 -0700 Received: from gwyn.tux.org (ident-user@gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5SDrjV26674 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:53:45 -0700 Received: (from timball@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA24203 for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:53:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:53:44 -0400 From: Timothy Ball To: XFS Mailing List Subject: Re: Filesystem conversion Message-ID: <20010628095344.D3920@gwyn.tux.org> References: <01062812533100.01258@citadel.oehansen.pp.se> <4.3.2.7.2.20010628132843.02f35510@pop.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010628132843.02f35510@pop.xs4all.nl>; from knuffie@xs4all.nl on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:34:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:34:00PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > Boot single user > dump.static -0 -a -f /mnt/hde/var.dump /var > umount /var > mkfs.xfs -l size=32768b -f /dev/sda7 > vi /etc/fstab (change fstype) > mount /var > cd /var > restore.static -rf /mnt/hde/var.dump I've written some shell scripts ment to be run as a single user that already do this. They're available at www.tux.org/~timball/. It uses spare space on another device and a loopback to do the dump and restore... course I'm using cp -dRp or some flags like that... what's the benifits of using dump? --timball -- Send mail with subject "send pgp key" for public key. pub 1024R/CFF85605 1999-06-10 Timothy L. Ball Key fingerprint = 8A 8E 64 D6 21 C0 90 29 9F D6 1E DC F8 18 CB CD